Taiwanese Thomas the Train

Over and over, we read the same five or so books. His favorite today was a Thomas the train story. After about the 15th or 20th time, Baba said, "Ask Mama to read it to you in Taiwanese." What? Between the two of us, he has the better Taiwanese! So I pushed it back onto him... He took the challenge and I was laughing already. About two pages in, I was in tears... trying to translate a Thomas the train story into Taiwanese was a lot more challenging than I even thought. You don't realize how little you actually know until you come across any words other than basic conversational ones. Even better, the whole time NJ was wandering around the room, bringing me other books to read, and asking Baba to: "Read the story!"